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When they make star wars decorations for the christmas tree.
You find yourself comparing them to Sheldon Cooper.

When someone asks your 4 1/2 year old what he got for Christmas and he launches into a monologue of the piece-by-piece schematics of the Meccano Erector set he got. Then, at the end, when the wide-eyed person says, 'Wow, you got a lot of presents!' He whispers conspiratorially: "Yeah, Santa Claus brought me a lot, but actually it's just my mom and dad."

When your son tries to convince the neighborhood bully that rules are important in life.

When you ask him what his heart tells him to do about a difficult decision and he says his brain tells him what to do because his heart is just a big muscle.

When your 7 year old loudly announces to his older brother that Santa can't logically exist, and putting a very profound and concise argument to the fact. Leaving the queue of kids and their parents waiting to see the aforementioned jolly fat guy looking mortified and upset.

And try as I might I couldn't help but snicker. Hah

This may have been touched on already, I haven't read this list in a long time - when you give a hand held calculator to a 5 yo and he finds it more entertaining than the Nintendo DS.

when you're a regular in doing auto multiply by 2 about 2000 times just to check if u still know them all 1,2,4,8,16,32,64.128.256.512.1024.2048....


when your still amazed at the point wich ur calculator stops by doing this


when your totally happy each day to see 12.34 on the clock or 23.45 or things like 12.21 , yeah im easy to please

When your kid (at 2) looks at the moon phase diagram at a zoo exhibit, vocally protests that it is for the wrong hemisphere, and you go home and check it, and he is right!

Thumbs up for geeks!

You finally tell your child that it's time to have "The Talk", and he or she says, "Sure! What do you want to know?"

When your four year old is watching home videos on the video camera and is laughing, then flips to the one where his grandpa went to a factory and video taped a bunch of robotic arms for a job he was working on, and the four year old is entranced and LOVES the robotic arms.

When your four year old is watching Max and Ruby, sees Max playing with his Whack a Mole game and asks what the red light on top does.

When your child is watching you bake cinnamon rolls and asks why the "gear" in the oven stops spinning when you open the door to put the cinnamon rolls in.

Yeah.

You discover your 8-year old son's hidden brewery in the basement, and don't punish him because the stuff he makes tastes better than what you get from the store!

You've stopped asking why you get all the premium channels at the basic rates without getting busted by the cable company.

You stand in line to see a movie on opening night alone because taking your kid along means having him lay out the entire plot for you within minutes after the opening credits.

"Failed my saving throw" is what your child tells you when you ask how he broke his arm.